No survivors are expected to be found after an American Airlines jet, flying from Wichita, Kansas plunged into the Potomac River after it collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter.
There were 64 people on the plane, and three on the helicopter.
So far they had recovered 27 bodies from the water.
Unfortunately we were not able to rescue anyone,” said Jack Potter, the chief executive of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.
Footage appears to show a UH-60 BlackHawk Military helicopter and a CRJ 700 jet collided mid-air
Passengers on the flight included a group of figure skaters, their coaches and family members who were returning from a development camp that followed the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita. Three soldiers were onboard the helicopter, an Army official said.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the midair crash occurred before 9 p.m. EST when a regional jet that had departed from Wichita, Kansas, collided with a military helicopter on a training flight while on approach to an airport runway. It occurred in some of the most tightly controlled and monitored airspace in the world, just over three miles south of the White House and the Capitol.
